What is the meaning of dramatize?

Put into dramatic form.
- usage: "adopt a book for a screenplay"
- synonyms: dramatise, adopt
Represent something in a dramatic manner.
- usage: "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"
- synonyms: dramatise
Add details to.
- synonyms: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatise

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